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US
/ˈbəsˌbɔɪ/
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[ UK /bˈʌsbɔɪ/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌsbɔɪ/ ]
NOUN
- a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes
How To Use busboy In A Sentence
- There he worked as a busboy, waiter, whatever it took to make ends meet in Albany. Culinary Journey
- At the nearby Desert Diner, dishes clatter as busboys set tables for the lunch crowd and crank the fireplace to a high blaze.
- They came to work in the large industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest as factory laborers, peddlers, busboys, and bootblacks.
- Waiters and waitresses wear prison uniforms and the busboys are dressed like policemen and wardens.
- I observed that, as a raconteur, he held court in the Trinity faculty dining room, befriending administrators, liberal artists, science professors, waiters, and busboys equally.
- It was the same story with the waiter who took our order and the busboy who cleared the dishes.
- The busser is a luxury that, in this environment, is very difficult to justify," says Mark Godward, president and founder of SRE, a Miami consulting firm that has advised several restaurants to cut busboys. If a Half-Eaten Burrito Lingers, There May Be No Busboy to Blame
- Service is obviously still taking shape...we weren't offered any water, I had to ask for silverware & napkins, our dishes should have arrived simultaneously to avoid the "no go ahead and start without me" uncomfortableness, we had to wait a bit for the waffles since there was the snafu with the lemon curd, plus the busboy was a bit too intent on clearing our plates quickly. Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA
- One must not forget that the money used to pay the salaries was money which came from the worker, from the newsvendor, the bootblack or busboy, from people who received only 90 or 100 pesos. MASS MEETING OF ELECTRIC POWER PLANT WORKERS
- I was known as the Dancing Busboy because I would do a little dance when delivering popovers to tables.